ASSISTANT SPORTS PERFORMANCE COACH
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Athletics Administration
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Athletics
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Duke University is seeking a qualified candidate to be a Sports Performance Coach working with Women’s Lacrosse and select groups within Track & Field. This position is responsible for designing, implementing, conducting, and monitoring sports performance programs for assigned Olympic sports student-athletes and teams.
Required Qualifications:
· Master’s or Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, Biomechanics, Health Sciences or related field
· Current NSCA CSCS or CSCCa SCCC certification
· Minimum of 2-3 years as a full-time sports performance coach with an NCAA collegiate athletics department or professional sports organization
· Current CPR/First Aid Certification required
· The candidate must also possess strong organizational and communications skills
· Experience working with male and female athletes across a variety of teams in all areas of sports performance, including advanced speed development, weight training techniques, and energy system development programs
· An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in place of the requirements above
Essential Functions:
· Designing and implementing sports performance programs for Olympic Sports student athletes and teams as assigned by the Director of Sports Performance and Director of Olympic Sports Performance
· Assisting in scheduling teams for and monitoring and maintenance of the Scott Family Athletics Performance Facility
· Additional Administrative Leadership responsibilities assigned by Director of Sports Performance and Director of Olympic Sports Performance
· Participating in ongoing individual and group professional development activities
· All duties must be performed in compliance with NCAA, Conference and University rules and regulations.
· Collaborating with athletic medicine, sports nutrition, and sports psychology/behavioral health staff to provide comprehensive support for the Duke student-athlete experience
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.
How to Apply:
Interested Applicants please send cover letter, resume, and list of three references as one document to dukehr@duaa.duke.edu. Please put "Sports Performance Coach, Olympic Sports" in the subject line. An electronic resume, cover letter, and list of 3 references should also be submitted at http://www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/ .
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, Biomechanics, Health Sciences or related field.
Experience
Minimum of two years as a sports performance coach at the collegiate or professional level; Current NSCA CSCS or CSCCa SCCC certification; Current CPR/First Aid Certification
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Organization
History
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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